Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Menassa wrote:A little, everyone knew what the values and punctuation were by Oral Tradition... it wasn't until later people began to forget and the Masorites wrote it down.
Ah. How prevalent is the Oral Tradition still to the Jewish community now? I know there's always emphasis on the reading of the Torah (something I am sure you know better than I do as you're studying the Law). But, is the Oral Tradition still important for today's Jews?
For the Orthodox... the Oral Tradition holds equal weight with the Torah... to us... Two Laws were given at Sinai one written and one Oral.
The First chapter in the Oral Law that deals with Ethics lists the Chain... and everyman must feel as if he is part of a link in the Chain from Moses to themselves.
Zweite Alaje wrote:Menassa wrote:A little, everyone knew what the values and punctuation were by Oral Tradition... it wasn't until later people began to forget and the Masorites wrote it down.
That's interesting. I've always be fascinated by how the languages of the Afro-Asiatic family treat vowels, they all seem to heavily favor the consonant roots. Even Egyptian/Coptic is like that.
Indeed.
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Menassa wrote:It tends to be.. the jump that is... and you marry someone who has been raised Jewish... you tend to have very different values.
That's what I thought. Plus, I am sure he also had problems with the diet, as in no pork or shellfish. And also with the practicing of Judaism per se. That the marriage lasted 10 months was a feat in and of itself.
The family branch in Spain never met her. These are cousins from one of my maternal grandmother's sisters who went to live in NYC when she was 16. There's a side of my family that doesn't speak Spanish.
I was reading an interesting book about Marrying Jewish... it gave lists of words and told the two partners to write down their feelings about those words... most often... they differed drastically.






